The Blue Whale

I'm back on this blog because I have been a most fortunate man for the past 12 years. I have lived in a beautiful home on Flander's Bay in Sullivan, Maine.

This is about trying to say goodbye to a piece of our lives together, and that will be immensely difficult. I'm not really sure if I will devote time to this, worried that it might increase my stress levels, but it might also ground me and allow me to focus on something over time.

Anyway...

Out On the Bay on Spring's First Day

The day was so nice today that I simply had to dig out the kayak and get out on the water. I didn't really dress so warm that it was bulky, just a long-sleeved shirt and a fleece vest, but it was very nice! I paddled up to the head of the bay past Watkin's Farm and took in all the seagulls, ducks and even an eagle on the trip. The photo I am posting is one that I particularly liked because of the seagulls on the rock and the position that placed the house in the background. I seem to notice things so differently on the water, and I appreciate the various points of view that present themselves.

16 Journals

I just finished another journal, and I got this urge to photograph them all together. It's something I have never done before and the "things" in my life are so varied and in such multiplicity that I can never photograph it all, so it seems that this concept presented itself from a thread of thought that was wrapped around my putting together a slide show of sorts of all my journal work. It may very well be the best legacy that I can leave behind in this world.
I've done more than 16, I have the ink drawings I did in the summer of '04 in an 11 by 14 journal, and I have the journals (one hand written, the other drawn) that Torrey and Cary gave me. And there's the missing one.

Band at the Library

We are shooting people pictures in Digital Photo class, so I had the chance to get some shots of our young musicians playing for the crowd at the NE Harbor Library tonight for the opening reception celebrating the artwork of MDI High School art students.
Getting the "feel" of the visual artwork on the background walls and for the musicians and their mannerisms while playing isn't always easy, but by moving around the space and becoming familiar with the surrounds it is much easier to get that "good" shot.

Nuts.

From close range with my phone. These are a part of my diet, and seeing them in the can yesterday morning kinda got me interested. The shallow depth of field and even the grains of salt are interesting aspects of this photo for me.

Roberta's Field Early Morning

As the sun shines onto the back field in our neighbor's house, I found this picture the other morning. I really love the play of cool blue against the sunlit warmer oranges and such in places in this landscape. A couple of little things I would probably remove in a perfect world. but I know things aren't perfect.

Here's the post looking west from the house.

Coyotes

There are a couple of coyotes that have been around the house for a while, and it is interesting to see how the full moon affects them as they have been howling a bit the past few nights. They came near the house today and did their howling thing, so we all went to the windows to watch them.

I got these pictures of the male as he sat over by the boats, calling out every once in a while, and then trotted toward the east into the spruces at the side of the house. They haven't been a bother in general, and they are interesting to watch.